Simultaneous Viewer and panels

[stonecherub]

Does IM5 have some way for me to scroll through a folder of images one at a time and examine each in maximum enlargement as I add metadata to describe it? This is a similar request to "Viewer: 'reverse' image ..." posted by Sorted on 20 July. I suspect we both want the same thing. My images are of volcanoes and I find the thumbnails too small to adequately assign an image to all its proper categories.

I tried to set up a 1 x 1 thumbnail workspace but all that did was expand the frame around a skimpy (useless) thumbnail. "Viewer" is clumsy and difficult to use, in my estimation, because files must be selected and put into it beforehand.

I also use Axel Rietschen's Fast Picture Viewer and I have to switch back and forth between that and IM5 - messy and inconvenient.

Maybe this function is available in IM5 and I have not found it yet.

[BenAW]

Maybe this function is available in IM5 and I have not found it yet.

It's called Quick View.
If viewing at full screen is important for you I'd spend some money on a second monitor and place Quick View on it. Right click on the top bar and select Maximize gives you a full screen view on the selected image with zooming as well.

[Mario]

Ben's right.

The Quick View Panel follows the currently selected file in the file window. You can dock the panel, make it float in a separate window and even put it in full-screen on a second monitor.

The Viewer allows you to work on any number of files and do categorization and culling work. Just select all the files you want to work on and press <Enter> to send them to the viewer. Switch the Viewer to full screen mode for the largest view. Show the Category overlay if you want to categorize and the Collection overlay if you want to use the collections.

Reviewing files, rating, labeling and categorizing them is actually what the Viewer has been designed to do. What is your specific issue / problem with the Viewer?

[stonecherub]

OK, this is what I want, thank you. I no longer need Fast Picture Viewer.

It is sort of hidden. I looked all over hell and then remembered "help."

Mario, I didn't realize how versatile you made the viewer. Did you code this yourself or did you find it inscribed on gold tablets buried in a hill in upstate New York?

[Mario]

OK, this is what I want, thank you. I no longer need Fast Picture Viewer.
It is sort of hidden

I think the Quick View Panel is visible by default. Maybe you closed it by accident and then forgot about it.

I looked all over hell and then remembered "help."

Very good. IMatch 5 is a deep and complex application. It is impossible to detect all functionality just by clicking around in the user interface. For example, did you know that left-clicking in the Quick View Panel performs a dive zoom to 100%? Or that, when the Quick View Panel is open and the file window has the input focus you hold down <SPACE> and move the mouse over the file window, the image under the mouse cursor is shown in the Quick View Panel? When you release <SPACE>, the currently focused image is shown again in the Quick View Panel. Note: The performance of this feature depends on several factors, e.g. if cache files  are already created, how fast the disk is etc.

Mario, I didn't realize how versatile you made the viewer. (...)

I developed it on my own. And then honed it with the Pre-Beta Tester group over the past months. It is really a very efficient tool to review large amounts of files, for culling, categorizing, annotating (Annotations are an often overlooked feature, but very useful especially in typical commercial workflows and scientific purposes). I've packed tons of features in it - reading the help for it is well worth the time